One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases

The time shortage also means that public defenders almost never take a case to a trial. But at least one in 10 felony cases — and as many as two in 10, depending on the type of felony — handled by public defenders should go to trial, according to the Texas study. In the most serious felony cases, defenders spent too little time on the most important tasks.

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